. >> senator john mccain has just reacted to what the defense secretary said. i want you to listen to what he believes is necessary. >> the time for talking about what to do may now be coming to a close, and we may just be left with an awful and very difficult decision. whether to continue on the sidelines and hope that a man was slaughtered nearly 40,000 men, women, and children in syria will decide not to take the next step and use far more destructive weapons to kill significantly larger numbers of people or whether to take military action of some kind that could prevent a mass atrocity. if that is the choice we now face, it is a grave and sobering decision. >> fran, what do you think? i mean, do you think it is time now to consider military action on the part of the united states? >> well, i think what is going on now, you know, if you look and you see secretary clinton is traveling to the middle east on monday. i think what the administration is scrambling to do now is to try and put together an international coalition, much as we saw them do with libya. t